"distorted" in the verb sense

1. falsify, distort, garble, warp

make false by mutilation or addition as of a message or story

2. twist, twine, distort

form into a spiral shape

"The cord is all twisted"

3. contort, deform, distort, wring

twist and press out of shape

4. tinge, color, colour, distort

affect as in thought or feeling

"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"

"The sadness tinged his life"

5. deform, distort, strain

alter the shape of (something) by stress

"His body was deformed by leprosy"

"distorted" in the adjective sense

1. deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen

so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly

"deformed thalidomide babies"

"his poor distorted limbs"

"an ill-shapen vase"

"a limp caused by a malformed foot"

"misshapen old fingers"

2. distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted

having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

"many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"

"a perverted translation of the poem"

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